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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by collyw on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:26PM (#16879217)
You could extend your attitude to any sort of disability couldn't you. Why hire someone in a wheelchair, when there is someone who could walk up the stairs in half the time?
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by aje403 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:29PM (#16879253)
Can the person in the wheelchair code fizzbuzz in an interview?
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by collyw on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:22AM (#16883362)
"Can they code it on the job" is the relevant question.
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by aje403 on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:29AM (#16883632)
You can take the guy who starts frothing at the mouth when you ask him to code fizzbuzz, I’ll take the wheelchair guy who can code fizzbuzz during the interview. Deal?
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by collyw on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:59AM (#16883768)
When did anyone start frothing at the mouth?
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:18PM (#16878521)
Does it bother you that you don't know the answer?
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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by s73v3r_ on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:38PM (#16879929)
Communicating in the office is quite different than communicating in an interview setting.
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by aje403 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:42PM (#16879959)
In your head and the head of those with extreme anxiety it is quite different. You're meet people who might be nice or not and chat a bit, you answer some questions, maybe there's a free lunch involved, you either get a job offer or you don't and you continue your search, and your life continues on without the sky collapsing
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by tytytytytytytyt on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:33PM (#16881083)
You could say that for almost any job, but somehow you don't see the same hyperbolic whinging in all of those fields, do you? And your claim isn't even true. It's very similar to the kind of code discussion you might have on the job. "How would you solve this?" "What if I try X, Y, and Z?"
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by aje403 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:47PM (#16881349)
This whole thing reminds me of a shitty superhero spoof movie from the 90’s - Mystery Men - one of the characters’ superpower is that he can turn invisible when nobody else is looking and he is naked